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Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M

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It certainly follows then that some leading construction robotics companies are able to strike while the iron is hot with some healthy raises. Those include things like continued improvements in AI and labor shortages in key industries, as well as the decreasing price of robotic hardware. million Series A.

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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

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ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. million NASA contract for lunar construction tech by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA.

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AI construction startup Versatile raises a $20M Series A

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San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The URBAN-X accelerator alum has developed a piece of hardware designed to be mounted to a crane. From that vantage point, it’s capable of capturing and analyzing data across the construction site.

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Built buys fellow construction robotics firm, Roin

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One of the most remarkable things about construction robotics is the sheer breadth of tasks that can potentially be automated. It’s also one of those areas that have become increasingly difficult to staff, post-pandemic, even as construction work came roaring back. This isn’t one of those cases of a one-to-one technology acquisition.

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Dusty’s construction robots raise another $45M

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Dusty operates in the construction space, specifically, which has been an area of increased focus for automation proponents. The short version is that the little Roomba-style ‘bot is designed to replace the chalk lines that construction workers manually draw to designate layout in a construction site.

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Construction tech startup RenoRun lands $142M in Tiger Global-led Series B

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When it comes to construction projects, any type of delay can result in increased costs both for the contractor and their customer. It is also interesting that Tiger Global is a co-lead as it is yet another example of the investment giant backing a construction tech company — a growing area of interest for the firm.

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Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

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A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. Hardware-as-a-service. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions.

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